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Medicalising everyday life doesn’t help anyone’s mental health

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Tom Cruise
Medicalising everyday life doesn’t help anyone’s mental health

Imagining it is increases untrue expectations and puts pressure on an already stressed NHS.

I have a rising sense of nervousness about the Americanisation of British civilization’s attitude in the direction of mental health.

In the 1980s, British listeners grinned bemusedly at neurosis laden Woody Allen movie and the regularity with which American TV and cinema preserved notions of meds, therapy, and interferences.

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To a British ear, the characters of these human tragedies could seem self-regarding, silly and self-absorbed; the facts of fun to be pitied for their incapability to uphold a stiff upper lip and their unfamiliarity of the influence of a strong cup of tea.

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